[LINK] Bitcoin and global warming

[Kim Holburn]

When will etherium switch to "proof of stake":

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33802343/when-will-ethereum-switch-to-proof-of-stake

Ethereum's Big Switch: The New Roadmap to Proof-of-Stake:
https://www.coindesk.com/ethereums-big-switch-the-new-roadmap-to-proof-of-stake/

This would solve the energy guzzling problem but still doesn't solve the scalability of transactions problem.


> On 2017/Dec/18, at 10:53 AM, Jim Birch <planetjim at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Joshua Gans:
> 
> In summary, we are going to look at the Bitcoin era as an important
> innovation running off the back of a big design mistake. It all could have
> been avoided had Bitcoin minted its 21 million coins right from the start
> or with a much shorter expansion.
> 
> https://digitopoly.org/2017/12/17/ending-the-bitcoin-energy-drain/

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